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Generating Nano Oscillatory Motion

Posted by kdawson on from the maybe-you-could-power-an-atomic-clock dept.

KentuckyFC sends us to arxivblog.com, where he summarizes (in prose that is somewhat more twee than we usually encounter in writing about physics) the conversion of a constant force into oscillatory motion on the nano scale. Here is the article preprint. A research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made mushroom-shaped nano-pillars that oscillate in a constant DC field, like metronomes.

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  1. Twee by camperdave · · Score: 3, Informative

    Twee: Nausiatingly cute.

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